Expert Witness in Psychopharmacology Side-Effects of ADHD/ADD Medications Weakened Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) Criteria Leading to Misdiagnosis
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Criteria is Weakened due to Bias Leading to Harmful Medications, Worsening Health Outcomes, Significant U.S. Financial Burden, and Threats to National Security
Misdiagnosis is costly and takes funding away from those with valid mental illness What are the Factors fueling the rise of misdiagnosed childhood mental illnesses?
Doctors with
Financial Conflicts Of Interest,
Careless Medical Practices and Pharmaceutically Influenced are
Fueling the Rise in Misdiagnosis Causing Children's Health to Deteriorate
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders DSM-V and DSM-V-TR have Low Threshold and Weak Criteria Causing Epidemics in Misdiagnosis as Editors had FCOI with Pharmaceutical Industry
Unbalanced schedules due to
No Child Left Behind,
Every Student Succeeds Act
along with Premature Birth, Youngest in the Class and Academic Pressure to Succeed Inflate Misdiagnosis
80% of psychiatric drugs are prescribed by primary care doctors after a seven-minute visit, with little experience in the field and influenced by drug salesmen
*Nearly 85 to 100% of the doctors and editors on DSM-V and DSM-V-TR had financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry which connects patients to harmful phychiatric medications.
*Medicaid patient 2/3 increased diagnosis
*DSM now allows normal differences in childhood temperament to be diagnosed as a mental disorder according to DSM Architect, Dr. Allen Frances
*Weakening of DSM due to drug company efforts to expand market to ensure treatments would be reimbursable by health insurers, Medicaid and Medicare
providing cash payments and lavish gifts to doctors
*Increased academic pressure with loss of recess, PE and breaks and addition of testing and homework fueled sharp rise in ADHD misdiagnoses
*Youngest in class 75% more likely to receive diagnosis
*Children could not sit all day, less breaks than child labor laws
COVID-19 resulted in ADHD rates to rise by 4,450%
Solutions
*Better trained doctors given accurate information concerning pharmaceutical medications and weakened DSM criteria
*Caution when seeking mental health diagnosis due to DSM weakening according to Dr. Frances.
*Awareness: ADHD medications are gateway drug to addiction; prescription and antipsychotic drugs are third leading cause of death
Solutions
*Dr. Frances recommends revision of DSM-5 with regulatory board over-site
*Awareness of these misdiagnoses/epidemics and side effects of drugs such as addiction, psychosis, brain atrophy, violence and suicide with increased likelihood of misdiagnoses of bipolar and schizophrenia
*More tolerance of normal temperaments according to NIH
Solutions
*Extending breaks, PE and recess with less testing and homework K-12 *Awareness now 1 in 3 boys in areas of VA and many girls labeled with ADHD disqualified for military service
*Better understanding of temperaments by all healthcare providers
*Bring back trade schools / hands-on jobs for those temperaments needing more movement
7 million children in the US have been diagnosed with ADHD and over 65% taking psycho stimulants
8.4 million children prescribed psychiatric drugs according to the Incident Management System (IMS) health source (United Nations, 2017).
Side effects have caused increasing numbers to end up in jails (1/3), state hospitals, juvenile detention centers (85%), or to be placed on Medicaid, Medicare, Supplemental Security Income, or Social Security Disability Insurance due to aggression and brain atrophy leaving them unable to care for themselves
The Justice Department has recovered billions of dollars from pharmaceutical companies for false claims and side effects surrounding these drugs
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House Joint Study Resolution 682 placed in Joint Commission on Health Care
Advisory Board for the Virginia Commission on Youth Biennial Report
Review, Research and Edit the Board's biennial report: Collection of Evidence-based Practices for Children and Adolescents with Mental Health Treatment Needs.
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